Leaving Berwick, if you continue northwards along the coast for two miles, you will be passing Marshall Meadows Bay before reaching a point near the east coast railway line, where a sign marks the England Scotland Border. Here you will have reached the northernmost point in England. The coast from here northwards, towards Edinburgh, was once part of Northumbria but was lost to Scotland many, many centuries ago.Of course Northumbria's history does not end at the Scottish border, as only seven miles to its north, near St Abb's Head you will find the village of Coldingham.

This was the site of a Northumbrian monastery founded in 655 A.D by St Ebbe (or St Abbe), the sister of St Oswald, King of Northumbria. Like St Hilda's monastery at Whitby many miles to the south, Coldingham was a home to both nuns and monks and was frequently visited by St Cuthbert, who was a friend of St Ebbe. During his visits to Coldingham, St Cuthbert would often wander the seashore during the night arousing the curiosity of a Coldingham monk who spied on him from a distance. What the monk witnessed is remembered in the famous legend of `St Cuthbert and the Otters'. The monk saw Cuthbert walk into the sea until the freezing water came up to his neck, after a while Cuthbert left the water and on the shore he began to pray. The monk's delightful story is told by St Bede;

"immediately there followed in his footsteps two little sea animals, humbly stretching themselves on the earth; and, licking his feet, they rolled upon them, wiping them with their skins and warming them with their breath. After this service had been fulfilled and his blessing had been received they departed to their haunts in the waves of the sea"

The River Tweed meets the sea here at Tweedmouth, and the town has pleasant walks along the river with three bridges in close succession.

Bamburgh, a small coastal town, looking out towards Farne Islands just offshore. The town has a great, impressive, large Norman castle.

Bamburgh is famous for Grace Darling, who, with her father rowed out to save 9 people from a wrecked ship in 1838, there is a shrine in the 13th century church's church yard.

Holy Island, this island was populated by missionaries in the 7th century after coming from Iona led by St Aiden. The Danish ransacked the monastery 150 years later and in 1802 the Benedictine monks built the priory, which is now in ruins. The monks made mead, which is still made now.

Seahouses, a small town, is one of many small towns and villages on this under-populated stretch of the Northumberland coast, is now a resort with a fishing harbour. Mostly visited for the boat trips to the Farne Islands.